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At Penn: Special Trips for Special Babies
PHILADELPHIA -- Providing health care for children through doctor visits and hospitals is important, but there are also other activities that can help youngsters develop into healthy adults.That is the thinking behind the Special Babies Clinic and its Special Trips for Special Babies program.
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Penn Students Help Native American High Schoolers Learn College-admission Process
PHILADELPHIA -- Four University of Pennsylvania students with Native American roots are working with nearly 100 high school sophomores and juniors of Native American, Alaska Native or Native Hawaiian descent who are on campus this week to learn how to navigate the college-application process.
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Penn Dental Medicine Faculty Receive IADR Distinguished Scientist Awards
PHILADELPHIA — For their outstanding research achievements, Denis Kinane and George Hajishengallis of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine have received 2012 International Association for Dental Research Distinguished Scientist Award
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Penn Researchers’ Study of Phase Change Materials Could Lead to Better Computer Memory
PHILADELPHIA -- Memory devices for computers require a large collection of components that can switch between two states, which represent the 1’s and 0’s of binary language. Engineers hope to make next-generation chips with materials that distinguish between these states by physically rearranging their atoms into different phases. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have now provided new insight into how this phase change happens, which could help engineers make memory storage devices faster and more efficient.
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Flu Research Should Proceed With Caution, Penn’s Joshua Plotkin and Others Urge
PHILADELPHIA — The journal Science is today publishing a paper revealing that highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza, also known as bird flu, can pass from one ferret to another through the air. Publication of these results has been delayed and debated during the last several months for fear that terrorists or others might use information from the study to “weaponize” the flu virus for intentional harm.
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Amy Sadao Appointed Dietrich Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Penn
PHILADELPHIA -- Amy Sadao has been appointed the Daniel Dietrich II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, effective Sept. 1. The announcement was made by Penn President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price.
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Penn Researchers Say Automated Strategies to Engage Patients at Home Are Key to Improving Health Outcomes
In a Perspective piece published Online First this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, a group of researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania propose a multi-pronged approach to the new practice of so-called "automated hovering" that aims to improve patients' compliance with medication and dietary regimens and other positive health behaviors.
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Penn’s Graduate School of Education. Milken Family Foundation Select 2012 Education Business Plan Winners
The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) and the Milken Family Foundation have announced the winners of the 2012 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition (EBPC) – with five winners earning a total of $120,000 in prize funding.
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Regional Anesthesia Reduces Complications and Death for Hip Fracture Patients, Penn Medicine Study Finds
In a study of more than 18,000 patients having surgery for hip fracture, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that the use of regional anesthesia, instead of general anesthesia, was associated with a significant reduction in major pulmonary complications and death. The new study will be published in the July issue of the journal Anesthesiology.
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Chemical Analysis of Pottery, Informed by Penn Research, Reveals First Dairying in Saharan Africa
PHILADELPHIA — The first unequivocal evidence that humans in prehistoric Saharan Africa used cattle for their milk nearly 7,000 years ago is described in research by an international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and including Kathleen Ryan of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.